ISIS spokesman reportedly killed during raid in Syria

The aftermath of the alleged airstrike against Abu Hassan al-Muhajir.
(Image credit: Aaref Watad/AFP/Getty Images)

Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir was killed on Sunday during a raid in northern Syria, a Syrian activist and the leader of a Kurdish militia that fought ISIS said.

The activist, Hussein Nasser, told The New York Times he spoke to people who said that al-Muhajir was in the back of an oil tanker truck, about to be smuggled out of the country, when the vehicle was hit by what they think was an American airstrike. Mazlum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces, tweeted that al-Muhajir was killed in an operation coordinated between his forces and the U.S.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.